This is an analysis of the poem Les Mois/Mai that begins with:

Du mois, cher à Vénus, la course est terminée.
Son frère, nouveau roi des beaux jours de l’année,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXcdXeXXXXXXXXXaXdXXXXcXXXfXXbXXbXXXXXXXfcXXXddXXXbgXhXXXXXXXiiXXXXXXhXXXXiXXXXjXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXkkXXXXXbeeXXXXXXXXkgcXXXdXXXXXb XXXXXXaXXhXXXXXXXggXXbXXXXlXXXXXXXmXXXXXfiXbbXXXdXXXXXlgglXXXXXXbXXXnhXXdXgfXXegXXXbXhhXXXXXXXXXXeeXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 94,41,101,21,141,61,49,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110110 1111111101 100011111 11010110011 101101101110 1101011110 100101101111 111110111100100 11011101110 010110110100 1111001110 101111111011 11110111101 11101011010 111111110010 10011011011 1010111010 11110110111 111011111010 1011110110010 10111011111 1111111110 110100110100 010010101010 11001110110 110111110 011111110100 1001101110 10111010111 101010111011 1111011101111 111011011 111110111111 0101101101 111110111 11011110111011 1101101011110 10100111100 01010110110 11111011100 111110110 111001111 11111101 1110011011 01101111010 01110100010 1111110100 1110110010 1110011010 111011111110 11100111010 101110100010 101110010 111111111001 1001111011 11111110111 110001110100 1110011010 1001111101 1001001111 101110011010 110110010110 111011110 1100101100 111011110100 10111001100 100110100110 011111111010 101111110 11011111110 101111110 110101010 1101111011 11011111010 110100100011 11010110100 100011110 001100110110 11011010011 10110001010 101011101001 111001111011 11100111001 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  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 649
  • Amount of lines: 508
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, ces, tour, d, je, et, s, ses, les, de, des, qu, j, le, mon, re, plus, l, en, un, elle, son, que, il, sa, qui are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu, ces, ici, je, mon, c, les, des, le, il, que, ou, l, qui are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, le, tour, s, les, lier, es, re, tre, frais, te, ne are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase s connects the lines.

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